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March 18, 2004
Hidden games in 80's music
Wonnerful essay on Sinclair video games hidden in 80's audio recordings. The games are appalling, but a lot more fun than more recent equivalents (via heather).
Dan Hill wrote about the same era of games and computers a while back: "...the seemingly unlimited potential of those early machines, akin to crystal radio-like boxes, loading programs off cassette tapes into 2kb of RAM. Remember this feeling?"
Luckily, you can play a few of these games as Java applets that run Sinclair emulations. Given how fragile digital data is, I wonder if encouraging future software emulation is a part of anyone's strategies for preserving it?
Posted by Andrew at March 18, 2004 09:50 AM